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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (annotated)
Henry David Thoreau
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (annotated)
Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is a classic nature adventure text by Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1849. The book is ostensibly the narrative of a boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire and back Thoreau had taken with his brother John in 1839. As John had died from tetanus in 1842, Thoreau wrote the book as a tribute to his memory. The book's first draft was completed while Thoreau was living at Walden Pond (1845-47). He was unable to find a publisher, however, and therefore had it published at his own expense.[2] Few copies sold and he was left with several hundred extras and went into debt. A slightly revised version of A Week, based on corrections Thoreau had made himself, was published in 1868, six years after his death. While the book may appear to be a travel journal, broken up into chapters for each day, this is deceptive. The actual trip took two weeks and while given passages are a literal description of the journey - from Concord, Massachusetts, down the Concord River to the Middlesex Canal, to the Merrimack River, up to Concord, New Hampshire, and back - much of the text is in the form of digressions by the Harvard-educated author on diverse topics such as religion, poetry, and history. Thoreau relates these topics to his own life experiences, often in the context of the rapid changes taking place in his native New England during the Industrial Revolution, changes that Thoreau often laments.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 15, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781519308399 |
Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 250 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 13 mm · 340 g |
Language | English |
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